Activities in the Park
Rock Band & Xbox 360
Xbox 360 and MTV Games let you live the ultimate music game experience with Rock Band and The Beatles:Rock Band. Crank it louder with Rock Band and experience the Beatles TM music and legacy like never before. Meet The Beatles. Rock The World.
ACL Photo to Screen delivered by T-Mobile
Want to get even more fun out of your ACL Festival weekend? Then grab your mobile phone and join ACL’s Photo to Screen program, delivered by T-Mobile. Fans can snap photos with their phones and submit them for broadcast on the Jumbotrons. It’s easy: Simply snap a photo on your phone while you’re in the park and send it to pics@aclfestival.com. The best shots will make it up on the screen and the ACLFestival.com web site. Not only will your shots be featured on the screens and on the web, but the best photos will also earn some cool prizes.
Waterloo Records Tent
Why settle for just seeing your favorite bands at ACL Festival when you can meet them, too? Check out the schedule of daily autograph sessions at the Waterloo Records tent. While you’re there, pick up the latest CDs and vinyl from your favorite Festival acts.
Barton Springs Beer Garden
Situated on the Town Lake side of the park near the SoCo Art Market, the Barton Springs Beer Garden is a tree-shaded outdoor beer garden where fans can kick back at picnic tables to enjoy refreshing Heinekens or food from the nearby Austin Eats Food Court. It’s the perfect rendezvous point for hooking up with friends between shows.
American Airlines Bag & Chair Check
Experienced ACL-goers know that nothing gets in the way of Festival fun more than lugging your stuff around with you all day. You were smart enough to pack sunscreen, shades, a chair and other essentials for a full-day (or three) in Zilker; now, be even smarter, and take advantage of the American Airlines Bag & Chair Check. They’ll stow and take care of your bag or chair so you don’t have to.
Rock Island Hideaway
The Rock Island Hideaway tent, located in the center of the Festival grounds (behind the Austin Ventures stage), has evolved into a full-on sports bar for 2009. After last year’s success showing sports, the Island will literally Rock with two 12x9-foot screens. That’s right – 12 feet wide each! We’ll be showing all the college and NFL football throughout the weekend. Want to check a score and grab a beer in the shade? Slide into the new sports bar and catch some of the big acts take the stage.
Good for Austin…and the Planet
Visit the East end of Zilker Rock Island to find these kiosks that support our most precious resource, Austin musicians, and that galvanize the world in the fight against cancer.
The LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Campaign and the Lance Armstrong Foundation
The LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Campaign, led by Lance Armstrong, is raising awareness of the world’s cancer burden and making the disease a global priority. Since launching in January 2009, the LIVESTRONG campaign has traveled the world, drafting survivors, world leaders, corporations, policymakers and non-profit organizations (like the Love. Hope. Strength. Foundation) striving to inspire action in their communities. The Lance Armstrong Foundation fights for the 28 million people around the world living with cancer today. There can be — and should be — life after cancer for more people. That’s why LIVESTRONG kicks in at the moment of diagnosis, giving people the resources and support they need to fight cancer head-on. LIVESTRONG finds innovative ways to raise awareness, fund research and end the stigma about cancer that many survivors face. They connect people and communities to drive social change,and call for state, national and world leaders to help fight this disease. Anyone, anywhere can join the fight against cancer.
Love. Hope. Strength.
“Get on the List” at Austin City Limits! This year, 30,000 people will need a bone marrow transplant. Yet only 3,000 people will find a donor. Are you “On the List” to become a bone marrow donor? Thanks to The Love Hope Strength Foundation, it is simple to save a life right here at Austin City Limits, free of charge, with a simple cheek swab! Stop by the Love Hope Strength booth learn more details about becoming a bone marrow donor and to “Get on the List” to save the life of a patient in need. While at the LiveStrong/Love Hope Strength kiosk, be sure to register for a free guitar!
Love Hope Strength is the world’s leading rock-n-roll cancer foundation. LHS has traveled the globe to Mt. Everest, the Empire State Building, Mt. Snowdon, Machu Picchu, and Kilimanjaro using the universal language of music to purchase life saving equipment, spread awareness, promote early detection, and register people to the national bone marrow database. Co-founded by cancer survivors James Chippendale, CEO of CSI Entertainment Insurance, and Mike Peters, front man of The Alarm; and with the support from legends in rock n’ roll and passionate volunteers from around the globe, LHS is making a tangible difference in the fight against cancer. Check out Love Hope Strength.
SIMS
Since 1995, the SIMS Foundation has provided mental health and addiction treatment services for Austin-area musicians and their families. Through our staff clinicians and our network of over 60 providers, all of whom reduce their rates significantly for SIMS clients, we are able to serve 600 people a year and leverage more than $320,000 of in-kind support. Thank you, Austin, for your commitment to live music and the working musicians who make Austin “The Live Music Capital of the World.” Come visit us on the east side of Rock Island to learn more about our services. And learn more at www.simsfoundation.org/
HAAM
Health Alliance for Musicians (HAAM) is a groundbreaking project that provides access to affordable healthcare to Austin’s low-income, uninsured working musicians. Formed in 2005, the services include primary medical care through Seton Family of Hospitals, basic dental care through St. David’s Community Health Foundation Leadership and mental health/addiction recovery services through The SIMS Foundation. In 2009, HAAM began a pilot project to help musicians access hearing exams and custom-fit earplugs. In 4 years HAAM has served over 1,600 musicians, most of whom earn less than $15,000/year and has earned a 94% approval rating from musicians for quality of care and services. Even though the music industry brings in more than $1 billion to the Austin economy the musicians themselves often work multiple jobs and struggle to pay for rent, food and other basic expenses. Prior to HAAM the musicians were using the emergency room, the most expensive place to receive treatment, for their care. Now they have access to cost-effective, regular medical, dental and mental health services. For more info visit: www.healthallianceforaustinmusicians.org or www.myhaam.org.
Rock the Vote
Rock the Vote’s mission is to engage and build the political power of young people in order to achieve progressive change in our country. Rock the Vote uses music, popular culture and new technologies to engage and incite young people to register and vote in every election. And we give young people the tools to identify, learn about, and take action on the issues that affect their lives, and leverage their power in the political process. Rock the Vote is creative, effective, and controlled by nobody's agenda but our own- we tell it like it is and pride ourselves on being a trusted source for information on politics. We empower the 45 million young people in America who want to step up, claim their voice in the political process, and change the way politics is done. Visit www.RockTheVote.com.
2009 Elections are fast approaching and the deadline to register in Texas is October 5th. Stop by the Rock the Vote booth to register to vote, or re-register if you have recently changed your address. For more info on state elections, please go to: http://www.rockthevote.com/election-center/